Introduction to Management Accounting Chapters 1-14 - Hardcover

Horngren, Charles T.; Sundem, Gary L.; Stratton, William O.; Burgstahler, David; Schatzberg, Jeff

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9780136141501: Introduction to Management Accounting Chapters 1-14

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ISBN 10: 0136141501 ISBN 13: 9780136141501

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2007

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Get refreshed with Horngren/Sundem/Stratton's Introduction to Management Accounting, 14th Edition. This best-selling book offers a relevant, real-world decision-making approach to management accounting. Readers develop a solid understanding of costs and cost behavior and the use of cost information for planning and control decisions, not just inventory valuation. This book emphasizes the notion that ";You need to understand the business first, before you can understand the accounting of business."; Updated to cover the most recent methods in management accounting, topics include: cost behavior, cost management systems, and activity-based costing; marketing and product decisions; the master budget; flexible budget and variance analysis; management control systems; capital budgeting; cost allocation; andjob-costing and process-costing systems; basic accounting concepts, techniques, and conventions; corporate financial reports

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This text describes both theory and common practices in a way that will help readers understand how to produce information that's useful in day-to-day decision-making.

Managerial Accounting, the Business Organization, and Professional Ethics; Introduction to Cost Behavior and Cost-Volume Relationships; Measurement of Cost Behavior; Cost Management Systems and Activity-Based Costing; Relevant Information for Decision Making with a Focus on Pricing Decisions; Relevant Information for Decision Making with a Focus on Operational Decisions; Introduction to Budgets and Preparing the Master Budget; Flexible Budgets and Variance Analysis; Management Control Systems and Responsibility Accounting; Management Control in Decentralized Organizations; Capital Budgeting; Cost Allocation; Accounting for Overhead Costs; Job-Costing and Process-Costing Systems; Basic Accounting: Concepts, Techniques, and Conventions; Understanding Corporate Annual Reports: Basic Financial Statements; Understanding and Analyzing Consolidated Financial Statements

For management professionals who would like to understand how to make effective economic decisions.

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